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i know it's over everywhere in the world but... happy mkg** b'day! like every year, mom and i spend mkg's b'day together. weird thing in the us is that it's not a holiday and we have to fight to do it. so i skipped morning classes and she sat in my dreaded grouchy-prof class. and 'cause my mom can't keep quiet in any class, now she has a fan following of my group and the grouchy prof! who i think was actually cooing at her at the end of the class. 😡 and i got to see today's show sitting at mom's feet, surrounded by my gang. somehow, today of all days, it was good to have her fingers in my hair and her sari-covered knee under my cheek, while watching the show.
**: full name of gandhi-ji, father of the indian nation,
creator of the principle of non-violence,
dude who made mostly-nude look cool.
(hmmm, wonder if prem's a gandhian... he should consider it... the gandhian principles would look very good on him! 😆)
* big thing: the blast site scene was very good. prem's part in it was super good. i liked the shot of his eyes coming open, and the shot of the sun in a grey sky. i liked how his hands groped around, feeling the bike on his chest, as he came to consciousness. i was shocked at the sight that met his eyes when he turned to one side -- a man who's arm had been blown off. i liked how he started shaking from shock. i was shocked at how people ran over him. i liked how it took him so long to get to his feet. i liked how the camera zoomed on his dazed, shock-widened eyes. i liked how he staggered aimlessly, just one more bewildered person in the mad crowd.
i detested how there was no police, no medical staff that came at any point in this sequence. this is delhi for crying out loud! emergency response is typically the best in the capital city - no police, no medical help was a huge error here! 😡
i liked how my mom and my gang watched in silence.
* big thing: at home, things are still full of light and heer-kind-of-goodness. just the way that it is. just the way it ought to be. just the way that prem would've been seeing it, if he had not left on this trip.
* big thing: i liked how - even in the middle of all that shock and chaos - prem's still human enough to recognise and want to help the "aunty" from the train. that's still mein-bhagwan-nehi-hoon-but-i'm-gonna-give-it-a-try prem. who when he cannot find anyone to help aunty, will help her himself. prem who has fallen, and been hurt, and wipes his tears like a little boy who is feeling frightened.
*that wrung my heart. good thing saris can be used to soak up a tear or two, shed quietly*
for all that the setting was convincing, you'd have thought that the people they had running up and down in the set, should've have worn such clean white clothes? or could've been sprayed down the the same grime that prem and "aunty" were?
* big thing: one hugely irritating thing was actually the people running around in clean white clothes - and not helping the hurt and the wounded! 'cause, one thing that always happens in india is the kindness of random strangers at times of distress. you will see it everywhere -- and you will see it most in a moment of a disaster. in the 2006 floods in bombay, the police and city admin were stretched to breaking point and it was the ordinary junta who made time and effort to help the needy. same for the earthquake in gujarat. it's there in every situation. and the lack of this in today's episode stuck out like a sore thumb and it hurt! 😡
first, they have the gall to show - in delhi! - no police/medical assistance so long after the blast. and then they have the gall to show no-one - no-one - helping out the wounded??? absolute garbage! i detested this slip up today! i did. 😡
* big thing: what happened to make prem give up and not run out of the fire? something must've happened -- what??!
* big thing: the ladies teasing heer at the party -- tell me if i got it wrong -- did that fat lady just ask heer "how far she had made it with prem"???!!! and it was not just that! the green bangles "clanging in the night"! or "the last few days as a maid, after that prem will be doing all the troubling"!!!! other than making me hide my blushes against mom's knee and keeping my gang very very silent -- it made me think: so is this a big hint that prem-heer have ... uh ... "done it" already? the last set of days, we have certainly seen prem really chasing heer. and then we had the prem takes heer as his wife. and then we had heer chasing after prem. er... did something happen that i missed? or am i just letting my prem-heer-fevered imagination get the better of me??
(but if prem doesn't make it, please, please, please let them have made love already! please!)
* big thing: (again) what happened to make prem give up and not run out of the fire? is his fear/dislike of fire/heat so much that it destroys his spirit to fight against the fire? we haven't been told any such thing before -- is there something that we haven't been told??? why was he talking about having lost out on love, and yet, there being love in separation? why?? 😭
* big thing: laluchacha pulling preet into the dance -- was actually something that made more tears soak into mom's sari. preet will never dance with such abandon - perhaps even never! - again. 😭 meher feeling happy for her sister 'cause "no one's jealousy will ever spoil your life, heer didi. 'cause there is no one like prem. and no one can have the luck of having got her prem." the shy happiness on heer's face.... 😭
i loved how mom and my gang watched in silence.
* big thing: 'kay, so what the heck was that ending?? prem sees the life that he ought to have had in his last remaining moments? what, WHAT??? i understood the focus on his lips, parched and parted to take in painful breaths. but his wide gazing eyes? what are they supposed to be seeing? those voices about files and the business that prem-bhaiyya knows, asking him to come back -- what is he supposed to be hearing? his mother's voice? only his mother's voice? heer's voice? asking him where he is? before the wall of fire comes between him and our eyes!
that was a deeper segment than i understood -- what was it? i want to know.
* big thing: that picture? in the end? prem's face moving from colour to white-black, smiling with his mouth, smiling with his eyes -- but with those silly lines underneath "we will miss you prem"? huh. huh! huh! we know he's coming back. hc's coming back. i think prem's coming back. and we don't want our brains white-washed into thinking otherwise, thank you very much!
for the people at the top, who are the decision makers for these things. a clue: why don't you just focus on telling us this gorgeous story, with this gorgeous cast, with your competent script writers, with your excellent camera crew - with better editing, please! - and stop with the stooooopid little media-gimmicks to micro-manage our expectations?! you little .... worms! the expectations-micro-management is trite. it's old. it's as dull as ... watching an entire episode filled only with veera and maya! 😡😡 get with it. get on with the prem-heer and their family story. stop distracting us with the rest of the media-poop! damnit!
* grr to making me mad on mkg's b'day!*
highlight of the episode: mom's fingers in my hair, gentling my mind as i watched their telling me that prem's possibly died. the cool head was important to tell me that it is not as simple as that. that there is something in the air. that we have to wait and watch. and so, i will. until the story becomes unbearable. that is, if the story tells me that heer and prem are no longer one. 'cause "prem-heer are one" is the story that i have been watching. am watching. and will keep watching out for. if the story is not that... then shakespeare is something that i'd rather be reading. good luck to us all. 😊
**: full name of gandhi-ji, father of the indian nation,
creator of the principle of non-violence,
dude who made mostly-nude look cool.
(hmmm, wonder if prem's a gandhian... he should consider it... the gandhian principles would look very good on him! 😆)
* big thing: the blast site scene was very good. prem's part in it was super good. i liked the shot of his eyes coming open, and the shot of the sun in a grey sky. i liked how his hands groped around, feeling the bike on his chest, as he came to consciousness. i was shocked at the sight that met his eyes when he turned to one side -- a man who's arm had been blown off. i liked how he started shaking from shock. i was shocked at how people ran over him. i liked how it took him so long to get to his feet. i liked how the camera zoomed on his dazed, shock-widened eyes. i liked how he staggered aimlessly, just one more bewildered person in the mad crowd.
i detested how there was no police, no medical staff that came at any point in this sequence. this is delhi for crying out loud! emergency response is typically the best in the capital city - no police, no medical help was a huge error here! 😡
i liked how my mom and my gang watched in silence.
* big thing: at home, things are still full of light and heer-kind-of-goodness. just the way that it is. just the way it ought to be. just the way that prem would've been seeing it, if he had not left on this trip.
* big thing: i liked how - even in the middle of all that shock and chaos - prem's still human enough to recognise and want to help the "aunty" from the train. that's still mein-bhagwan-nehi-hoon-but-i'm-gonna-give-it-a-try prem. who when he cannot find anyone to help aunty, will help her himself. prem who has fallen, and been hurt, and wipes his tears like a little boy who is feeling frightened.
*that wrung my heart. good thing saris can be used to soak up a tear or two, shed quietly*
for all that the setting was convincing, you'd have thought that the people they had running up and down in the set, should've have worn such clean white clothes? or could've been sprayed down the the same grime that prem and "aunty" were?
* big thing: one hugely irritating thing was actually the people running around in clean white clothes - and not helping the hurt and the wounded! 'cause, one thing that always happens in india is the kindness of random strangers at times of distress. you will see it everywhere -- and you will see it most in a moment of a disaster. in the 2006 floods in bombay, the police and city admin were stretched to breaking point and it was the ordinary junta who made time and effort to help the needy. same for the earthquake in gujarat. it's there in every situation. and the lack of this in today's episode stuck out like a sore thumb and it hurt! 😡
first, they have the gall to show - in delhi! - no police/medical assistance so long after the blast. and then they have the gall to show no-one - no-one - helping out the wounded??? absolute garbage! i detested this slip up today! i did. 😡
* big thing: what happened to make prem give up and not run out of the fire? something must've happened -- what??!
* big thing: the ladies teasing heer at the party -- tell me if i got it wrong -- did that fat lady just ask heer "how far she had made it with prem"???!!! and it was not just that! the green bangles "clanging in the night"! or "the last few days as a maid, after that prem will be doing all the troubling"!!!! other than making me hide my blushes against mom's knee and keeping my gang very very silent -- it made me think: so is this a big hint that prem-heer have ... uh ... "done it" already? the last set of days, we have certainly seen prem really chasing heer. and then we had the prem takes heer as his wife. and then we had heer chasing after prem. er... did something happen that i missed? or am i just letting my prem-heer-fevered imagination get the better of me??
(but if prem doesn't make it, please, please, please let them have made love already! please!)
* big thing: (again) what happened to make prem give up and not run out of the fire? is his fear/dislike of fire/heat so much that it destroys his spirit to fight against the fire? we haven't been told any such thing before -- is there something that we haven't been told??? why was he talking about having lost out on love, and yet, there being love in separation? why?? 😭
* big thing: laluchacha pulling preet into the dance -- was actually something that made more tears soak into mom's sari. preet will never dance with such abandon - perhaps even never! - again. 😭 meher feeling happy for her sister 'cause "no one's jealousy will ever spoil your life, heer didi. 'cause there is no one like prem. and no one can have the luck of having got her prem." the shy happiness on heer's face.... 😭
i loved how mom and my gang watched in silence.
* big thing: 'kay, so what the heck was that ending?? prem sees the life that he ought to have had in his last remaining moments? what, WHAT??? i understood the focus on his lips, parched and parted to take in painful breaths. but his wide gazing eyes? what are they supposed to be seeing? those voices about files and the business that prem-bhaiyya knows, asking him to come back -- what is he supposed to be hearing? his mother's voice? only his mother's voice? heer's voice? asking him where he is? before the wall of fire comes between him and our eyes!
that was a deeper segment than i understood -- what was it? i want to know.
* big thing: that picture? in the end? prem's face moving from colour to white-black, smiling with his mouth, smiling with his eyes -- but with those silly lines underneath "we will miss you prem"? huh. huh! huh! we know he's coming back. hc's coming back. i think prem's coming back. and we don't want our brains white-washed into thinking otherwise, thank you very much!
for the people at the top, who are the decision makers for these things. a clue: why don't you just focus on telling us this gorgeous story, with this gorgeous cast, with your competent script writers, with your excellent camera crew - with better editing, please! - and stop with the stooooopid little media-gimmicks to micro-manage our expectations?! you little .... worms! the expectations-micro-management is trite. it's old. it's as dull as ... watching an entire episode filled only with veera and maya! 😡😡 get with it. get on with the prem-heer and their family story. stop distracting us with the rest of the media-poop! damnit!
* grr to making me mad on mkg's b'day!*
highlight of the episode: mom's fingers in my hair, gentling my mind as i watched their telling me that prem's possibly died. the cool head was important to tell me that it is not as simple as that. that there is something in the air. that we have to wait and watch. and so, i will. until the story becomes unbearable. that is, if the story tells me that heer and prem are no longer one. 'cause "prem-heer are one" is the story that i have been watching. am watching. and will keep watching out for. if the story is not that... then shakespeare is something that i'd rather be reading. good luck to us all. 😊
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